My POV 15 minutes before I went on KQED's Forum, the most listened to public affairs program in the region. 

Afterward: Forgot to take a photo. Was craving the second half of that scone I did not finish. 

I think I did ok. But you tell me. 

 

Wow! Practical Classics has been out exactly two months. Thanks to a little bit of touring and a ton of support from you, sales are steady and continuing to climb. We've gotten some nice press in the LA Times, The Atlantic Wire, The Huffington Post and, eh, my first time on morning television. 

I've given myself until the beginning of June for this initial push which means there's still quite a bit of work left to go. Here's where else I'll be this spring.  

May 3-5: Boston (at the Muse & the Marketplace Writers Conference)

May 6: River Run Books (Portsmouth, NH. 45 minutes from Boston)

May 8:  Book Passage (Corte Madre, CA)

May 23rd:  Kepler's Books (Menlo Park, CA) 

See you on the road? In the meantime, you can get your copy of Practical Classics on Amazon, Barnes & Noble or at your favorite Independent Bookstore. 

The book is out! Purchase on Amazon or your favorite Independent Bookstore. 

And thank you!

So it was an ordinary Thursday and I was on my way to the gym when I stopped to check email. Waiting there was an email from a producer for the NPR show Talk of the Nation asking if I'd like to come on the show and talk about my book Practical Classics (coming out next month) and rereading books from high school as an adult. 

90 minutes later, I was speeding across town, a nervous wreck. 2 hours later I was set up in a dark room at KQED public radio, San Francisco, looking into a darker control room with host Neal Conan, live from Washington DC speakng into my right ear. 

I look this photo from my perch at the studio. I've no idea why its sideways. Probably because that's how I felt. 

I'm told the interview went well. Listen and judge for yourself. As important, I followed a segment on political unrest in Algeria and another about a horrifying rape case in India. If nothing else, I was the after dinner mint to a very heavy meal.